Tag: farming
64% of world’s farmland at risk from pesticide pollution, study finds
"This is important because the wider scientific literature has found that pesticide pollution can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment."
Reclaimed water could be the solution to farming in a drier...
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
After enduring ‘complete hell’ during pandemic, food workers face obstacles getting...
“Vaccinating our essential farmworkers will ensure the safety of their workplaces, their homes, their families, our food supply, and the vital services that they perform.”
Water hits Wall Street as a futures commodity
“Climate change, droughts, population growth, and pollution are likely to make water scarcity issues and pricing a hot topic for years to come.”
Encourage Congress to ban factory farms
It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!
Bridging the food-or-energy gap
“This dual use of the land adds a layer of efficiency that wouldn’t be there. You start seeing layer after layer of benefit, benefit, benefit."
A new generation of Black farmers is returning to the land
They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.
How to solve the big problems that small family farms are...
Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.
How a black farming community found justice
Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But at one time, she wanted to leave farming far...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
If policymakers can envision a contemporary version of ideas in the original New Deal, a climate-friendly and socially just American agriculture is within reach.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.